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New Relic recently released Real User Monitoring which allows you to measure your page load time (and much more) across browsers, operating systems, and geography for users across the globe. If you want to see how fast your page is loading client side, New Relic can now help with that as well.
from real users, across the globe. How fast is your web app for your users?

In DHH's keynote he talked a great deal about the new asset pipeline coming in Rails 3.1. This new feature allows for better organization of assets such as javascripts, stylesheets, and images. It also allows for additional functionality like the translation of coffeescript and sass, and stronger caching of the assets using Rack Cache.

Pow is a zero configuration rack server for OSX. 37 Signals uses it for all their developers, so they don't have to run 10 services to just develop on a single app. Pow takes care of starting up servers as needed.

Yehuda covered his thoughts on how to build Rails apps that work with rich client-side applications. He proposed some standards for json data web services, and Travor Menagh wrote up this nice summary of his talk.

At Railsconf Nick Sieger released JRuby Lint, a simple tool that allows you to see how ready your code is to run on JRuby. It will check your project code and configuration for common gotchas and issues that might make it difficult to run your code on JRuby.

Avdi Grimm did a talk on Confident Code. One of his points revolved around the over use of nil. In Ruby we use nil to represent many things, which may not be great. Take a look through his slides when you get a chance.

Aaron Patterson's Keynote is really worth watching, if not for the description of prepared statements in Rails 3.1, and how that can speed up your code. He finished up his talk with some Pro-Tips. In other words, inviting a bunch of people to dance with him on stage. Definitely worth watching!